ARRIVAL OF OSWESTRY GRANGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8137, 18 June 1906, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF OSWESTRY GRANGE.

DISEMBARKING THE BODY. AN IMPBEBBIVE SCENE. FUNERAL IN WELLINGTON ON THURSDAY. PKE PBEBS ASSOCIATION. Wblmngion, June 17. H.M.B. Encounter, which went out again at 6 o clock to meet the Oswestry Grange, failed to find her, the arriving in the stream shortly after 10 o'clock. She anchored there, and wa» joined by the Tulanekai, whioh took out the Aoting-Premier and members of the late Mr Seddon's family. It was half-past eleven before tin ships came np to tho wharf, and midnight was striking just tied up. Members of the Ministry and oi - Parliament went eta board to see the body, which lay in the saloon. The expression of iftie face was peaceful and very lifelike. Mrs Seddon and family, who wejre very much JaSected, went ashore shortryUterwards. Mora than an hour was oooupied in the cult work of putting the body in tM> outer coffin, and moving it to the gangway. The whole thing weighed nine hundredweight. About half-past one t twelve artillerymen went aboard to . act as bearers, and the body was carried down to the wharf, the Hon. Mr Hall-Jones preceding. All stood bareheaded, groups of officers of the Military Staff and H.M.S. Pioneer standing at the salute. The coffin was covered with the New Zealand Ensign, and the hearse with the Union . Jack, At the barriers to the wharf, 1 there was a crowd of one or two thoua- , and people, who had waited four or five hours. They reverently parted to [ let the hearse pass, anl followed r silently to the Ministerial residence in Molesworth street H.M.S. Encounter, which'had returned to port in response to a wireless message from H.M.B. Pioneer, fired a salute of 20 guns as \ the body left the wharf, the Post * Office bell tolling at the same tiipe. The remains will be interred at Wei- - lington on Thursday at 8.30 p.m.

RESOLUTIONS OF SYMPATHY.

Hokitiki, June 16.

The Westland Teacher < Institue will be represented at the obsequies by Mr T. H. Gill, Wellington. The Mayor of Kumar* his strongly endorsed the request by tho Comity Chairman that the remains of the late Premier be interred in Wesihnd. Gmbmni, June 16.

All local bodies, lodges, and social, religious, and political organisations have passed sympathetic resolutions regarding the death of Mr Seddon. .Wellington, Jane 17.

The Board of Directors of the Bank of New Zealand resolved " That the Hoard desires to place on record its deep sense of the very great loss sus* tained by the Colony through the death of the Bight. Hon, B. J Seddon, Prime Minister of Sew Zealand, and record its high appreciation of the eminent services rendered by him to tho Colony, and also of the action ' tken up 1894 by the Government of 'iich he wm* the head, in ■ promoting ■ '«qi«lation whereby alststancc from the 'tate was accorded the Bank of Ne# Zealand, and thus by coming to the rj'i'if of the Bank averting a Wide* "vead financial disaster ttntadghout " •'intry. The Board dosires farther

-irey to Mrs Seddon and her Vnity its profound sympathy with them in thoir great sorrow."